THEY are long time supporters of the plans to build a children’s hospice in Huddersfield and this weekend, that work continues.
Honley Male Voice Choir will return to Holmfirth Civic Hall on Sunday, December 16 in another of its annual A Feast Of Brass and Voices concert. This is the third time that the fund-raiser has been held and again, proceeds are in aid of the West Yorkshire Forget Me Not Trust whose Friends Support Group are the organising team behind the concert.
The choir will have as its guests, Meltham and Meltham Mills Band. The compere will be Peter Armitage, well-known as an actor, writer and director and he tells good stories too.
The choir, conducted by its musical director Alan Jenkins, will sing a selection of Christmas favourites as well as items from opera, from major musicals and from major British composers.
Many of the choir’s soloists will be doing their party pieces to give this concert a real celebratory air.
Brian Winterbottom will sing the solo in Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow ( Rutter/Jenkins) as well as songs from the musical, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Bill Hopwood will feature in Alan Jenkins’ arrangement of Danny Boy and with a trio of colleagues in Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s opera, Turandot. Take a bow, the mischievously renamed soloists Filippo Hardcastle, Guglielmo Hopwood,‘The Don’ Ernesto Lodge and Raimondo Steel.
Alan Bradford and David Lord will also feature in the selection of songs from Joseph and soloist Norman Mellor, (pictured) the choir’s chairman, will feature in the concert’s second half.
Tickets are £7.50 for adults and £4 for children, including refreshments, from Noreen Rochford on 01484 341189, Margaret Baxter on 01484 307280 or from choir members.
